Successful iPhone Game Developers Share Their Secrets iPhone Games Projects Dave Mark, Series Editor | PJ Cabrera From library of Wow! eBook www.wowebook.com iPhone Games Projects DAVE MARK, SERIES EDITOR PJ CABRERA JOACHIM BONDO AARON FOTHERGILL BRIAN GREENSTONE OLIVIER HENNESSY MIKE KASPRZAK MIKE LEE RICHARD ZITO MATTHEW AITKEN CLAYTON KANE iPhone Games Projects Copyright © 2009 by PJ Cabrera, Joachim Bondo, Aaron Fothergill, Brian Greenstone, Olivier Hennessy, Mike Kasprzak, Mike Lee, Richard Zito, Matthew Aitken, Clayton Kane All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner and the publisher. 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The source code for this book is available to readers at http://www.apress.com. You will need to answer questions pertaining to this book in order to successfully download the code. To my parents, Pedro and Cecilia: LQM —PJ Cabrera To my brother Adam, who does 50% of the work and gets 0.01% of the mentions ; ) —Aaron Fothergill To my teammates, past and present, who have made me the engineer I am —Mike Lee [...]... 251 xi Foreword iPhone games are hot, hot, hot! As I write this, there are more than 40,000 apps on the App Store, of which nearly 9,000 are in the Games category, the largest category by far The next largest category is Entertainment, at just over 5,000 apps There are nearly 40% more games on the App Store than any other kind of app Games is not only the biggest category on... Game Developers Conference’s Independent Games Festival Mobile 2009 Other authors, including Richard Zito, Joachim Bondo, and Olivier Hennessy, have received glowing reviews and accolades for their games The content in this book is phenomenal The authors provide a variety of points of view and different approaches to iPhone development, showing you how iPhone games are made with various technologies... want to get in on the fun and potential profit of making iPhone games, the time to get started is now, and this book is your ticket there! This book contains lots of information from master independent iPhone game developers— information that is hard to find anywhere else Some of the authors of this book are responsible for all-time popular games: Brian Greenstone developed Enigmo and Cro-Mag Rally... 134 136 137 138 139 139 140 140 141 144 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 ix x CONTENTS MICHAEL KASPRZAK C H A PT E R 6 Multiplatform Game Development: iPhone Games for Linux and Windows 155 The Development of Smiles: A Collection of Puzzle Games What Are Cross-Platform and Portability? Why Write Portable Code? Why Not Write Portable Code?... 14 were games Many of these apps were on the top-10 paid apps list at one time or another during the nine months the App Store had been in business Many are still on the top-100 list These sold thousands of copies a day in their time, with daily revenue between a few thousand to tens of thousands of dollars With such great numbers, it is understandable why the interest in developing iPhone games is... NetBSD router, or running Android and Debian GNU/Linux on a Palm TX) and making home-brewed games for consoles such as Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, GameBoy Advance, and PSP He is very excited that he can finally share his creative side on iPhone and XBox 360 with the general public through the App Store and XNA Community Games xv Acknowledgments Special thanks to Glenn Cole who reviewed every chapter, provided... third-party apps Apple’s App Store rocks, too, and as the owners of these devices have made it clear, games rock the most! The Wall Street Journal reported data from Mobclix showing that over a quarter of the applications in Apple’s App Store are games (see http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/ 2009/03/23/no-recession-for -iphone- game-apps/) Venture capitalists are getting in on the action as well, financing game developer... useful and inspirational xix xx INTRODUCTION We’re able to do this because this book is part of Apress’s comprehensive road map of Mac and iPhone developer titles So, if you have experience with Objective-C and Cocoa, but not specifically for the iPhone, Beginning iPhone Development by Dave Mark and Jeff LaMarche is a great way to fill in the gaps If you have experience with an object-oriented language... TextMate, Xcode, Cocoa, and Cocoa Touch Platforms include Mac OS 3–8, Newton OS, Palm OS, Unix (FreeBSD and Mac OS X), Mac OS X Panther and Leopard, and iPhone OS Life As an iPhone Developer: I created Deep Green, a chess game, using the official iPhone SDK from Apple (since the day it was released) What’s in This Chapter: With the focus on creating a beautiful, elegant, and powerful user interface,... Complex Games: Chess, the Deep Green Way When Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone ten years later at the Macworld conference of 2007, I knew right away I had to make Deep Green for my soon-to-be favorite handheld device And this time, I reckoned, he wouldn’t pull the carpet underneath my feet It took me a year of all my spare time, and a good bit of goodwill from my family, to finish Deep Green for the iPhone . Successful iPhone Game Developers Share Their Secrets iPhone Games Projects Dave Mark, Series Editor | PJ Cabrera From library of Wow! eBook www.wowebook.com iPhone. HENNESSY MIKE KASPRZAK MIKE LEE RICHARD ZITO MATTHEW AITKEN CLAYTON KANE iPhone Games Projects Copyright © 2009 by PJ Cabrera, Joachim Bondo, Aaron Fothergill,